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...rich wife (Singer sewing machines) and an activist's belief in redistributing wealth. At the time of the purchase, press observers expected early trouble for the former owner and still editor, Gilbert Harrison, 59, a high-minded, unabrasive, older-style liberal and leader in the antiwar and "Dump L.B.J." movements...
...reason for the wholesale-price dip, say sugarmen, is the declining price of the raw product. Sugar speculators, sensing that they had bid up the price on commodity exchanges to an unsustainable peak, have recently begun to dump their holdings and take their profits. U.S. spot prices of raw sugar have tumbled 10? per lb. in the past two weeks to 50?. World sugar prices (the U.S. imports about half the 11.5 million tons that it consumes each year) have fallen from 59? to 49? per lb. in the same period...
...Tryon chose to tell Lady's secret story, and as time went by he sure was a burden on her and the rest of us. Always digging into her closets and chifforobes, eavesdropping and peeking into folks' windows. More than a few of us wanted to dump him in our picturesque river, but he had Mr. Tryon's license to snoop so we couldn't lay a hand...
...clubhouse, a beautiful old wood building, was situated on Bird Island in between the Niagara River and the Black Rock canal about a half mile from where the Peace Bridge ran over into Canada. A half mile in the other direction was Buffalo's sewage treatment plant and city dump, Squaw Island. We used to have to run laps around the giant sewage treatment tanks, and sometimes we'd even run through the dump. The air was rotten on the leeward side of the island, but on the river side, the winds off the water would clear the stink...
...weeks earlier, the first (and unauthorized) outdoor show had abruptly ended when bulldozers, dump trucks and water wagons literally drove the artists underground by churning their works into the mud (TIME Sept...